2 Corinthians 10:5

Paul's Ministry Defended

⁴ (For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;) ⁵ Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ; ⁶ And having in readiness to avenge every imperfect instruction, when your obedience should be completed.

Knowledge of God

Lifted Up

Raised Again

Christ

Messiah

Isaiah 2:11-12

The lofty eyes of man were humbled, and the height of men bowed down, and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

Isaiah 55:7

The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash from evil to thy heart so that thou shalt be saved. How long shall purposes of thy vanity lodge in the midst of thee?

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:

Romans 1:21

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Romans 7:23

And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.

Job 42:6

For this, I shall melt away, and I lamented in dust and ashes.

Psalm 10:4

The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.

1 Corinthians 1:19

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

2 Corinthians 9:13

By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

1 Peter 1:14-15

As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

Genesis 8:21

And Jehovah smelled a smell of sweetness; and Jehovah will say in his heart, I will not gather to curse the earth yet again on account of man; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth: and I will not gather yet again to smite every living thing according to which I did.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh will say, Who is Jehovah, whose voice I shall hear to send forth Israel? I knew not Jehovah, and also I shall not send Israel forth.

Exodus 9:16-17

And yet for this I raised thee up in order to cause thee to see my strength; and for the sake of declaring my name in all the earth.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Watch to thyself lest a word shall be with thy heart, of Belial, saying. The seventh year, the year of remission is drawing near; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother and thou wilt not give to him; and he call against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.

2 Kings 19:22

Whom didst thou reproach and revile? and against whom didst thou lift up the voice, and thou wilt lift up thine eyes on high against the holy one of Israel?

2 Kings 19:28

Because thy wrath against me, and thine arrogance came up into mine ears, and I put my hook in thy nose and my bit into thy lips, and I turned thee back in the way which thou camest in it

Job 40:11-12

Scatter the overflowings of thine anger, and see every proud one and bring him low.

Psalm 18:27

Thou wilt save the humble people, and thou wilt humble the eyes of the lifted up.

Psalm 18:44

At the hearing of the ear they shall hear to me: sons of the stranger shall feign to me.

Psalm 110:2-3

The rod of thy strength will Jehovah send out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Psalm 139:2

Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of

Proverbs 15:26

The purposes of evil an abomination of Jehovah: and the pure speaking of pleasantness.

Proverbs 24:9

The purpose of folly is sin, and he mocking, an abomination to man.

Isaiah 2:17

And the haughtiness of man was bowed down, and the height of man was humbled: and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out innocent blood: their purposes, purposes of vanity; destruction and breaking in their highways.

Isaiah 60:14

And sons humbling thee came bowing down to thee: and all they despising thee worshiped at the soles of thy feet; and they called thee, The city of Jehovah, Zion, the Holy One of Israel

Ezekiel 17:24

And all the trees of the field knew that I Jehovah brought low the tree of height, made high the low tree, I dried up the green tree, and I caused the dry tree to flourish: I Jehovah spake and I did.

Daniel 4:37

Now I Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor to the king of the heavens, that all his works are truth, and his paths judgment: and that they going about in pride, he being able to bring low.

Daniel 5:23-30

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

Matthew 11:29-30

Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.

Luke 1:51

He has done strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thought of their heart.

Acts 4:25-26

Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things

Acts 9:4-6

And having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, Why drivest thou me out?

Romans 1:5

By whom we received grace and sending forth, to the obedience of faith in all nations for his name:

Romans 16:26

And now made manifest, also by the prophetic writings according to the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith made known to all nations:

1 Corinthians 1:27-29

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.

Philippians 3:4-9

Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more:

2 Thessalonians 2:4

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

2 Thessalonians 2:8

And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:

Hebrews 5:9

And being perfected, he became to all them lending a willing ear to him the origin of eternal salvation

1 Peter 1:2

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially: